8:39 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports The playoff intensity is about to start for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. And then it will be on hold. And then on hold again. The way the schedule broke down this
Arsenal’s Unai Emery admits that after the club lost their first two games of the season against Chelsea and Manchester City, their match over West Ham will be tougher than people are assuming. West Ham United manager Manuel Pellegrini has urged supporters to stick with their team after a losing start to the Premier League
3:10 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Serena and Venus Williams have been drawn into a potential third-round matchup at the US Open, which would be their earliest Grand Slam meeting in 20 years. If the sisters do play each other, the winner could face No. 1-ranked Simona Halep in the fourth round. That
Tottenham blanked Man United back in January, as Christian Eriksen’s first minute goal set the tone for Spurs. The FC crew answer your tweets on Man United, Sadio Mane’s rank among the Prem’s top players and Usain Bolt’s chances of becoming a professional footballer. Jose Mourinho broke down in tears. Manchester United had overlooked one
2:44 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Front Row Motorsports is now a three-car team, but the driver, car number and car manufacturer it will field as its third entry at Darlington Raceway next week is still
1:54 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Nico Hulkenberg thinks Renault’s acquisition of Daniel Ricciardo’s services for 2019 shows the team remains “very serious” about returning to the front end of the grid. Daniel Ricciardo’s shock switch to Renault and Fernando Alonso’s decision to quit Formula One at the end of 2018 have blown the F1
3:22 PM ET CANNON BALL, N.D. — In an emotional naming ceremony, Boston Celtics star Kyrie Irving was given the Lakota name Little Mountain by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe Thursday. Wearing a traditional shirt with ribbons, Irving stood on a buffalo skin and was prayed over by a tribe elder, Vernon Iron Horse. As
2:05 PM ET The Force India Formula One team has been renamed Racing Point Force India under its new ownership and had a new mid-season entry to this year’s championship accepted by the FIA. The news means the Force India team that competed up until the Hungarian Grand Prix in July has been excluded from
12:33 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Valtteri Bottas will find out on Friday morning if he will start from the back of the grid at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, as Mercedes makes a final call on whether to run its final engine upgrade of the season on both cars at Spa-Francorchamps. Title rival Ferrari
12:02 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Fernando Alonso claims Red Bull approached him “a couple of times this year” to replace Daniel Ricciardo in 2019. Ricciardo’s move to Renault for next season has started a chain reaction across the grid, moving Red Bull juniors Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz in different directions. Gasly will step